Reviews

The Splinter Reeds quintet goes all-out with new and adventurous compositions, and is eager for more.

Donald Pippin's Pocket Opera found a real jewel in Rabihah Davis Dunn, who made her Northern California debut as Leila in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers.

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street entrhalls audiences with works of the Franco-Flemish masters.

The Berkeley Festival and Exhibition brings together the best early music ensembles and musicians. This year’s impressive list of performers also featured Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis.

In its crossing from Broadway to opera house, the S.F. Opera Show Boat, in many ways a natural cross-over vehicle, shows some strain.

Of some 5,000 attendees in Davies Symphony Hall over the weekend, roughly half reveled in nostalgia and the others had their first experience of the Disney Fantasia.

Suite Thinking, no boredom, and both melodic and harmonic priority go into Guerrilla Guild’s new-music program.

A dream of a program from Ragnar Bohlin's magnificent San Francisco Symphony Chorus enthralled on Friday night, with three 20th-century choral masterpieces.

The third presentation of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy from the L.A. Phil of Così fan tutte is a musical triumph and an operatic delight of the first magnitude.

The star Russian baritone still has plenty of power and authority, and boisterous fans. But these days, lyricism and variety are in short supply.